Wednesday, October 12, 2011

camping - the car version this time



in the last couple of years I realized there are different definitions for the term camping

  1. drive a car up to the campground and unload everything what you could fit
  2. hike to a campground and all what you need and want is in your backback. The hike can be 500 yards or a couple dozen miles
  3. drive an RV to a campground and position the satellite dish the way you want it
So after we did number 2 a while back and spend a weekend in Yuba, it was time to full fill my promise and do number 1 too.

So Robin and I decided to join her Dad and little Brother on a Weekend camping trip in the mountains, which gave me enough opportunities to take some more pictures.

refelctions

water

ducklings

travelling to vegas using a different route

now this blog post is just a little bit outdated, since this event happend about 2 month's ago. I think this might show how busy we have been, that I didn't manage to pull these pictures from my camera any earlier.

Basically we wanted to visit Robins sisten in Henderson (A little town close by vegas) and also combine this with a fun drive. After all we all know that the quickest way to vegas is going down the 5 (2 curves?) or the 99 (4 curves?) and than on the i-15.
That I can recall the actual route means, I have driven to Vegas to often in the last years.

So instead I went with robins suggestion and we drove over Yosemite.


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Now this gave me the amazing opportunity to drive over Tioga Pass and so complete my 'driving over all passes in california' goal, half of them on a motorcycle.


And we even stopped for a terrible, terrible and overpriced lunch at Priest Station


and of course there was the standard picture of a waterfall too


after all the trip was totally worth it the extra 2 hours of driving!